Titlebook: Elective Mutism: A Handbook for Educators, Counsellors and Health Care Professionals; Norman H. Hadley Book 1994 Springer Science+Business

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Earliest Communication During Treatment of Electively Mute Persons,he studies, it was difficult to identify the treatment modality and it was therefore necessary to decide on a description which closely approximated the researcher’s intervention (e.g., “play therapy” for finger painting and doll play).

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Psychosocial Characteristics of Electively Mute Persons Part 2, by their paternal grandmother during an illness of their maternal grandmother. The mother attributed her daughters silence to shyness. The mother claimed that she did not feel like talking about unpleasant topics but she “didn’t have the courage of the girls not to talk” (Mora ., 1962).

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Treatment of Elective Mutism: Preliminary Considerations,e to manipulate other people. Appelman . (1975) claimed that verbal skills are a prerequisite for much of the child’s social and academic education. They also predicted developmental retardation for children lacking social skills. Lumb and Wolff (1988), however, questioned the need for intervention. They argued that:

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Unsystematic Informal Treatments,ence user. Parents who are inclined to believe that their child is electively mute frequently attempt to elicit speech by using both positive and negative strategies. A commonly used positive method involves offering a variety of gifts, but negative methods are also frequently employed and include:

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Behavior Management Procedures Part 2,f an electively mute child and instructed the parent to gradually raise the volume of the car radio, thereby forcing the child to vocalize louder in order to be heard. Increasing the audibility of speech was also a major focus in the recent intervention reported by Brown and Doll (1988).

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Udo-Ernst Haner,Nikolay Dreharovase, the problem is expressed in mutism. In hysterical, and even in schizophrenic mutism, children have surprised their parents by speaking in emergency situations. Idiogenic mutism is a rare condition in which the patient imagines that the speech organs are diseased.

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Green Politics and Neoliberalism the same study was hospitalized for six weeks after developing a lung infection and when she was released from hospital she refused to talk to anyone. These researchers interpreted the mutistic response of the girl as a reaction to the separation from her mother, and as an attempt by the child to punish her parents for hospitalizing her.

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Biology and the Celebration of Diversity,t of elective mutism and referral for treatment is due to the family preferring to wait for the child to grow out of his or her mutism, and to use their own strategies to get the child to talk before seeking professional help.